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Access != adoption. Even if every house had a PC, it doesn’t mean everyone in that house used it. Today it’s not uncommon for every person in the house to hav
by gdubs 8y ago
Access != adoption.
Even if every house had a PC, it doesn’t mean everyone in that house used it.
Today it’s not uncommon for every person in the house to have their own smartphone. And they use them on levels rivaling television at its peak — hours and hours a day. And it includes the grandmas, grandpas, aunts and uncles who wouldn’t even touch the PC.
The iPhone and the smartphone era it ushered in a seismic shift in society, is that not obvious? Something like 2 billion smartphone users globally today, roughly a decade from the iPhone introduction. In the late 90s PC users measured in the millions.
- slededit 8y agoKids used their PCs to write homework assignments. Parents used it to print out directions from map quest. The iPhone likely dramatically increased the frequency of use but PC penetration was near universal by the late 2000s. FWIW my grandpa and most others at the retirement home use a dumb phone.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> In the late 90s PC users measured in the millions. In the late 1990s, internet users (which, as the smartphone revolution hadn't happened, were largely a subset of PC users) were in the hundreds of millions and doubling roughly annually, though that slowed dramatically around 2000, but still was rapid enough to reach over a billion before the iPhone was introduced. The smartphone revolution did a lot, but even so your are way overstating it.
- gdubs 8y agoI just don't think you can equate internet access with the relationship people have today with technology. Addressing several comments here, but frequency matters – it's a lot different to have a computer in every home that family members use to varying degrees, vs a smartphone in the hands of billions of people who are glued to them on a daily basis at levels that rival Television at its peak.